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Category: BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTO CCY

Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that its cryptocurrency payment processor Coinbase Commerce now supports Circle’s stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) in a blog post on May 20. Per the announcement, Coinbase Commerce users can now accept USDC payments with no transaction fees. The announcement specifies that “unlike accepting credit card payments, merchants can accept USD Coin without geographical limitations or the need for a traditional bank account.”

Financial service provider SIX is developing a stablecoin pegged to the Swiss franc, a company spokesman confirmed to Cointelegraph on May 23. The company is also planning to launch a blockchain-powered exchange for digital tokens in the second half of 2019, but the spokesman said he was currently not at liberty to discuss further details concerning whether the stablecoin will operate on that exchange.

By design, Blockchain makes it easy for diverse parties to transact with one another without requiring a central authority — especially when there are varying levels of trust between them. That’s why it’s vital to create a vibrant ecosystem where participants work together to solve the same business problem.

Tokenized securities, or a security token offerings (STOs), are one of the much-hyped advancements that could help drive blockchain adoption going forward. While cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin or XRP can be seen as “digital gold” or “digital money,” and others like Ethereum or EOS can be seen as an access key to open source computing power, tokenized securities are different. While built on similar blockchain based technologies, tokenized securities are a version of digital ownership governed by smart contracts for any variety of …

The multimillion-dollar blockchain Tezos has officially concluded its first round of voting for two competing system-wide upgrade proposals. Not without its fair share of internal governance conflicts, today marks the official close of the first round of voting on the Tezos blockchain. The two proposals dubbed ‘Athens A’ and ‘Athens B’ are the first of its kind to undergo Tezos’ protocol amendment procedures, designed to roll out system-wide upgrades otherwise known as hard forks in an entirely …

CoinMarketCap reports approximately $6 billion per day in bitcoin trading volume, but the actual figure is $273 million, or roughly 4.5% of the reported amount, according to Bitwise. When conducting its analysis, Bitwise culled data from 81 exchanges, which it selected based on reported bitcoin trading volume. Exchanges that reported less than $1 million worth of volume per day were excluded. Bitwise, which recently proposed a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), submitted this report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange …

The launch of the first blockchain ETF on the London Stock Exchange has become a real milestone for the blockchain industry. At the current moment, there are around six blockchain ETFs that have been listed on Canadian or U.S. stock exchanges. Nevertheless, for investors in the UK, it is the first such an easily accessible opportunity to add to their portfolio investments in blockchain-related firms that’s why it will be interesting to observe how investors …

IBM is coming to the crypto custody space. Later this month, Shuttle Holdings, a New York investment firm, will launch the beta version of a custody solution for digital assets built on IBM’s private cloud and encryption technologies. The companies won’t be storing cryptocurrencies and tokens themselves, but offering tools for others to do so. Potential users include banks, brokers, custodians, funds, family offices and high net worth investors who want to do self-custody, as well …

As 2018 marched along and the utility token market saw a slowdown, industry has been rife with talk of the arrival of security tokens. This is for good reason. The market has long-waited for the grand entrance of institutional investors – but they have not yet significantly entered the market. This has partially been attributed to the core offerings of ICOs. Utility tokens offering usability are simply not substantial enough to investors, who are used …

SIX Group, the Swiss stock exchange operator, has picked R3’s Corda Enterprise platform as the underlying blockchain for the digital asset trading, settlement, and custody service it is building. Another area of focus for SIX is the handling of so-called security token offerings (STOs). Indeed, in an interview with Reuters last month SIX chairman Romeo Lacher said the exchange plans to eat its own dog food, so to speak, by looking to raise some money itself via …

Security tokens, in fact, can be equated to securities. They can give their owners, for example, ownership that is accordingly regulated. So in the US, the SEC resolved that security tokens are knuckle under to the same federal laws as standard securities. This type of token can be backed by company assets, such as stocks, the right to receive dividends or the right to vote. And undoubtedly for investors who believe in a company, this …

All of a sudden, several crypto-focused handsets are hitting the market, or will soon. The biggest player in the new game is Samsung, which confirmed this month that the Galaxy S10 will include a secure storage system for cryptocurrency private keys. It joins HTC, which for months has been touting the Exodus 1; Sirin Labs, which used proceeds from a huge ICOto build the Finney; and Electroneum, which this week began selling an$80 Android phone that …

When it comes to the business of law and the technology that law firms rely on to operate, blockchain has until very recently been of limited relevance, with CIOs and their teams only interested at the very fringes – the majority will tell you off the bat that blockchain is massively overhyped, and to a great extent they are right. But in contrast with the fact that blockchain in 2018 officially entered the trough of …

There is a clear sense that blockchain is a potential game-changer. However, there are also emerging doubts. A particular concern, given the amount of money and time spent, is that little of substance has been achieved. Of the many use cases, a large number are still at the idea stage, while others are in development but with no output.

In the PoC with R3, corporates using Corda will be able to authorise payments from their banks via gpi Link; gpi payments will be settled by the corporates’ banks, and the resulting credit confirmations will be reported back to the trade platforms via gpi Link on completion.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The World Bank has priced the world’s first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a A$100 million ($73.16 million) deal designed to test how the technology might improve decades-old bond sales practices. note: a private Ethereum blockchain is used